adpress
/ədˈprɛs/ /adˈprɛs/Chiefly Botany and Zoology
verb
[with object] To press closely to a surface, to lay flat; to press (surfaces or objects) to each other.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection. From classical Latin adpress-, past participial stem of adprimere (also apprimere) to press to or on from ad- + premere to press.
- hold something in fee
- hold something out
- hold something over
- hold sway
- hold the ball
- hold the field
- hold the fort
- hold the front page
- hold the line
- hold the man
- hold the purse strings
- hold the ring
- hold the stage
- hold thumbs
- hold together (or hold something together)
- hold up
- hold up one's head (or hold one's head high)
- hold water
- hold with
- hole
- hole-and-corner
- hole card
- hole-in-one
- hole in the heart
- hole in the wall